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Oscar-nominated actress Eleanor Parker, best known today for her role as the Baroness, the lady friend of Captain Von Trapp who loses out to\u00a0Julie Andrews\u2019 Maria in 1965 film \u201cThe Sound of Music,\u201d died Monday morning due to complications from pneumonia at a medical facility near Palm Springs, Calif. She was 91.<\/p>\n

In the 1950s, however, Parker earned three Oscar nominations for best actress: in 1951, for \u201cCaged,\u201d in which she played a naive young widow made cynical by her experiences in prison; in 1952, for William Wyler\u2019s \u201cDetective Story,\u201d in which she portrayed the wife of a ruthless police detective (Kirk Douglas) who ultimately reveals that she has availed herself of the services of the abortionist he\u2019s intent on imprisoning; and in 1956 for biopic \u201cInterrupted Melody,\u201d in which she portrayed Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence, who battled back from polio.<\/p>\n

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Parker showed impressive range, which was clearly her intention. She once said, \u201cWhen I am spotted somewhere it means that my characterizations haven\u2019t covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Parker was born in Cedarville, Ohio, but headed off to the Rice Summer Theater on Martha\u2019s Vineyard at 15. After high school in Cleveland, she moved to California, where she studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. Parker declined offers of screen tests from 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., then contacted the latter a year later; she was signed two days after the test.<\/p>\n

She was to make her screen debut in \u201cThey Died With Their Boots On,\u201d but Parker\u2019s scenes were cut; her bigscreen bow came in 1942\u2019s \u201cBusses Roar.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the next year she was assigned to a high-profile project at the studio, the very pro-Soviet \u201cMission to Moscow,\u201d in which she played the daughter of Walter Huston, who portrayed the American ambassador to the U.S.S.R.<\/p>\n

She was still making some B movies but starred with John Garfield in 1944 supernatural romancer \u201cBetween Two Worlds\u201d and in 1945\u2019s \u201cPride of the Marines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker failed, however, to live up to the memory of Bette Davis\u2019 performance more than a decade earlier when she starred in a remake of \u201cOf Human Bondage\u201d in 1946.<\/p>\n

The actress next appeared with Errol Flynn in two light-hearted charmers, \u201cNever Say Goodbye\u201d and \u201cEscape Me Never,\u201d and starred in a highly atmospheric adaptation of Wilkie Collins\u2019 gothic mystery \u201cThe Woman in White.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 1950 she starred in one of Humphrey Bogart\u2019s lesser efforts, test pilot \u201cChain Lightning.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the films for which she Oscar nominated, Parker made a number of high-profile pics during the 1950s, including the period actioner \u201cScaramouche,\u201d with Stewart Granger; Western \u201cEscape From Fort Bravo,\u201d with William Holden; epic, effects-laden adventure film \u201cThe Naked Jungle,\u201d with Charlton Heston; Egyptian adventure \u201cValley of the Kings,\u201d with Robert Taylor; and Otto Preminger\u2019s boundary-crossing addict tale \u201cThe Man With the Golden Arm,\u201d with Frank Sinatra.<\/p>\n

Parker gave an impressive performance in the little-seen B movie \u201cLizzie\u201d (1957), which, like \u201cThe Three Faces of Eve,\u201d released the same year, focused on a woman with multiple personality disorder.<\/p>\n

She made fewer films in the 1960s. Aside from \u201cThe Sound of Music,\u201d she appeared in movies including \u201cThe Oscar\u201d and Italian film \u201cThe Tiger and the Pussycat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress did a considerable amount of TV work beginning in the late 60s. She was a series regular on the 1969-70 series \u201cBracken\u2019s World\u201d; appeared on episodes of \u201cThe Man From U.N.C.L.E.\u201d and \u201cHawaii Five-O\u201d; and did the obligatory guest turns on \u201cThe Love Boat,\u201d \u201cFantasy Island\u201d and \u201cMurder, She Wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, however, she was nominated for an Emmy in 1963 for her appearance on NBC psychologist drama \u201cThe Eleventh Hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker also appeared in a considerable number of made-for-television movies, including \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll Come Home in the Spring,\u201d starring with Sally Field; \u201cVanished\u201d; \u201cHome for the Holidays\u201d; a 1975 version of \u201cGuess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner\u201d in which she played the Katharine Hepburn role; and \u201cMadame X.\u201d<\/p>\n

She made her last screen appearance in the 1991 telepic \u201cDead on the Money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker was married four times. Her second husband was film producer Bert E. Friedlob, her third, American portrait painter Paul Clemens. Fourth husband Raymond Hirsch, whom she married in 1966, died in 2001. Survivors include sons Paul, an actor, and Richard; and daughters Susan and Sharon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oscar-nominated actress Eleanor Parker, best known today for her role as the Baroness, the lady friend of Captain Von Trapp who loses out to\u00a0Julie Andrews\u2019 Maria in 1965 film \u201cThe Sound of Music,\u201d died Monday morning due to complications from pneumonia at a medical facility near Palm Springs, Calif. She was 91. 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